Guild Wars 2

Ok Anets solves the too many blue/green item thing by making us salvage for essence for luck instead of vendoring the items.

Sure its a short to medium term solution until everyone gets 300% Account MF then were back to there being no use for blue/greens again.

Only problem now is the influx of mats from those salvaged items into the economy which wouldn’t have been there if they were just vendored.

Tonight I have just seen prices fall by as much as 20-40 copper on some basic mats within the space of a few hours and many thousands of new mats have just entered the economy.

Now people are uploading stacks of 250 mats sometimes 400+ of the same mat to tp like I am salvaging blue/greens from boxes for essence.

Are there going to be extended use or something to use the basic mats now, seeing more will be salvaged from blue/greens so we can avoid a buildup of excess mats?

Just want to point something out, no one will get 300% mf anytime soon. The amount required goes up exponentially. If estimated maths is correct on reddit it’d cost 12k gold using ectos to get 300%. Let’s call that an upper bound though, but it’s going to be costly anyway. It may be a few k cheaper to use greens but the amount of time it’d take would be ridiculous salvaging them all. Once you break about 80% it really isn’t worth the gold cost to get more. (I’m around 90% atm)

I’m at 53% and it takes 720 luck to raise it more.

If it keeps going at that rate it will probably be well over 3000 luck to level in the 200% range. I imagine getting to 300% mf will take quite a while.

It’ll probably balance out over the next month. There’s this initial rush from everyone salvaging blues and greens, plus all the materials that rushed in from people opening up champion loot boxes from invasions. Once diminishing returns kick in for the essences of luck, it’s likely people will go back to selling them.

And there is a use for those materials as well, since they’re used to make some of the new ascended stuff. Granted, that’s not a lot really, but it’s still some drain on those materials.

fellyn.5083:

I’m at 53% and it takes 720 luck to raise it more.

If it keeps going at that rate it will probably be well over 3000 luck to level in the 200% range. I imagine getting to 300% mf will take quite a while.

haha, you’re dreaming. im at 88% and it takes 3000 already. It starts to ramp up very fast

The current formula we have: http://i.imgur.com/6vSDelC.png
Credit to supermatt314

It’ll take 18500 to level from 200-201%
also 44,500 for 299-300 if anyone was wondering.

Well for wood and metal, the ascended recipes will take care of excess mats pretty well.

Tom Gore.4035:

Well for wood and metal, the ascended recipes will take care of excess mats pretty well.

And the same will happen to cloth and leather once Ascended armor comes out too.

tertle.4621:

fellyn.5083:

I’m at 53% and it takes 720 luck to raise it more.

If it keeps going at that rate it will probably be well over 3000 luck to level in the 200% range. I imagine getting to 300% mf will take quite a while.

haha, you’re dreaming. im at 88% and it takes 3000 already. It starts to ramp up very fast

The current formula we have: http://i.imgur.com/6vSDelC.png
Credit to supermatt314

It’ll take 18500 to level from 200-201%
also 44,500 for 299-300 if anyone was wondering.

Wow that’s crazy.

118% here, 6220 for the next %

So I’ll probably try to get higher since I’m only at 25%. I might try to get 50-60, but then I’ll probably just go back to selling. The silver for greens did start to add up.

Woljnir.7810:

So I’ll probably try to get higher since I’m only at 25%. I might try to get 50-60, but then I’ll probably just go back to selling. The silver for greens did start to add up.

Well it’s practically a question of short-term investment vs. long-term investment.

off-topic but I’m so glad that apparently the luck solution is a longterm one that takes months or years of normal play to max. Maybe Anet is finally starting to think of long term solutions instead bandaids.

Cheers for letting me know that there are uses for mats now.

Going to make another thread about runes for a discussion on that.